The House

I've been asked to show pictures of the house, but have been hesitant because my house is never clean enough to photograph.... that, and its no where near where I want it to be. But because of that, I supposed that it would be ok to post "Before" photos of the house, and then post after photos as rooms are re-done and completed.

To start us off, I finished a 6 year old project last week. YAY! I posted about this glider before. For your viewing displeasure I'll show you the Before picture :

Complete with highlighter scribbled all over the seat cushion, and cusions that didn't have much to them anymore. This glider was 2nd hand 6 years ago when Jeremiah was born, and covered in a faux denim fabric that was showing WAY too many years of wear everywhere. I wanted to recover it then... and ever since it has just sat there, yucky and staring at me. I got bored one day and took some old curtains that had been ruined by a fountain pen during the move and the left-over foam from my couch project and went to town. I'm not sure I love the orange, but it was free, and much better than the yucky dirty blue. I still have to do the arm covers, but it's better. Hurray for finishing a project!

Girls room, Pink and yellow. Ugh.

To Do: Paint, curtains, a bunk bed, convert the crib back to a crib, get a new dresser and a rug, and create some art for the walls

Our room

To Do: Paint, bedside tables, lamps, get rid of the dust ruffle, move the curtains, bench for the base of the bed, and a reading chair, table and lamp for the large empty corner.

Master Closet

To Do: rip out the whole thing and start from stratch, and add deep shelves or cupboard for linen storage.

Jeremiah's room

To Do: Paint new curtains, new art piece for the wall, dresser for all his suff, headboard, and new bedding, oh, and re-do his closet.

Laundry Room: Super messy the day I took this picture... well, it commonly looks like this, lets be honest.

To Do: Paint, more shelves above washer and dryer, and build a shelving unit below the counter, window coverings, and art, and probably a rug.

Play room/Sewing room: it usually looks like this too.

To Do: paint, shelving for toy storage, and something that will keep my sewing stuff available, but safe from the girls... not sure if thats even possible.

The sewing closet

Family Room

To Do: Paint, move all the kid books to the playroom? window coverings, area rug, coffee table, two comfy chairs, some side tables and lamps. Greg hates overhead lighting, so lamps are the only way I'm going to be able to see in the winter evenings. :)

Living Room: the emptiest of them all

To Do: Paint, comfy movie watchin' couch, soft rug, side tables, lamps, built in bookshelves, floor cushions, oh, and a TV for watching those movies on that comfy couch.

Hallway looking from the front entry, not sure what I'm doing with this.

Kitchen:

To Do: Paint, undercab lighting, over-cab lighting, figure out how to decorate over the cabinets

Dining Room:

To Do: Paint, Side board, lamps, and try to find an alternative to those aweful vertical blinds.

Another Little Padawan

We will be adding another little girl to our lively bunch in January, or late december, but we're hoping for January, as far away from Christmas as possible. :)

I was sure it was a boy.... sure. I was looking at baby boy clothes and everything. But it really is a girl, She double checked. Gregs family had 5 boys in a row, and now... it'll be 4 girls in a row. So Kristina, if you want to have another girl, you'd better do it now so the streak doesn't expire. :)

Proof

This was taken August 1. I was 16 weeks pregnant, I felt HUGE. I couldn't believe the pictures, I didn't look that big, but looking down, I was enormous.

 This was taken today, Sept 5, I'm 21 weeks. And now I am enormous. :)



Please tell me it's perfectly normal to get way bigger with #4 than with 1, 2, or even 3??  I blame it on stress eating with selling the house, Greg being in CO,  moving, moving again... yes, blame it on the circumstances.

Overall, doing great, just feeling huge, and loving my maternity clothes, lots of stretchy things... AHHH. And anxiously awaiting the coming of fall and cooler weather.